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SNL: Can Everybody Stop Trying to Take Blake Lively's Potato Chip? Saturday Night Live was very funny this weekend, and everyone seems rightly surprised about that, but they also seem very surprised that Blake Lively did a decent job, which seems unfair to me. Being a good SNL host is probably more about having a great, I'll-tackle-anything attitude than it is about having actual talent, and Blake Lively always seems like an energetic, relentlessly fun and likable girl when she doesn't have her Serena van der Woodsen Thanksgiving catsuit on, so I figured she'd do a good job. And she did, in what little screen time they (wisely) relegated her to. She may be a pretty blonde lady, but let's not January Jones her for it, OK? That is some kind of profiling and it is probably offensive! But I digress -- on to the best sketches of the night!

You may or may not know what a Juggalo is -- and believe me, this sketch is much, much funnier if you do -- but even if you don't, the Kickspit Underground Rock Festival is easily one of the funniest sketches in recent memory, ninjas. I happen to know a lot of people named Dan, and they have all been officially renamed "Ass Dan" against their will and probably my best interest because of this amazing thing:


"Gossip Girl: Staten Island" also made me laugh a lot, though I was worried at first that it would be yet another Jersey Shore parody. In any case "Heels! Heels!" is very funny, and if you live on the east coast you also know that it is very, very true:


This probably makes me an idiot racist comedy supporter, but Virginiaca still makes me laugh, even without ScarJo, who really owns the bit. Anyway, Serena did her best, and I thought she was funny ("Ooh, mama, these chips are all kindsa tangy!"). At the very least, she committed herself to it like a real actress, unlike some Betty Drapers I know:


And my personal favorite of the night, the unabashedly bizarre Will Forte "Po-tay-toe chip!" sketch. It reminded me of that crazy doctor character Will Ferrell used to do, the one who was obsessed with palominos and once diagnosed Molly Shannon's son as a witch? Anyway, it was great, and another fine showing from Blake Lively:


The Salahi cold open, the ladies bowling, the Rihanna Digital Short (though I know most people loved that thing) and especially the Tiger Woods sketch didn't do anything for me, but overall, great job, show! And great job Blake Lively, though that doesn't surprise me.

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